Black Muslim US soldier is a suspect! ("10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack")

CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS

[Atlas Sneezed]

(CBS) Ten U.S. soldiers were injured, six or seven of them seriously, in a grenade and small arms attack at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is traveling with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Strassmann said the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire.

"From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent," said George Heath, spokesman at Fort Campbell, home base of the 101st.

Strassman said three suspects were being held for questioning, two Kuwaitis who served a translators and an American soldier described as a black Muslim.

The injured soldiers were rushed to a field hospital but military officials had no word on their conditions, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens said from Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar.

The military did not identify the unit of the 101st that was in the camp but said it had been in Kuwait for about one week. Most of the division has entered southern Iraq.

Separately, Strassmann reported, an Iraqi rocket fired at U.S. forces in Kuwait was destroyed by Patriot missiles launched from nearby Camp New Jersey.

The terror and missile attack came as the U.S. assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity. But tough fighting loomed for coalition troops as they pressed deeper into Iraq.

[FreeReign]

Very glad to know that you would deny me my rights as a citizen if some irish guy committed a terrorist act against the US. Oh shit, there was that Tim McVeigh guy. And there are Irish terrorists (Marxist to boot). Or maybe we should have rounded up all the white Christian militia types after OKC. What you are proposing is lunacy, not quite bad as the lunacy of the radical Islamists, but still reprehensible.

So then what you are saying is that all Muslims are not radical. On the other hand, many people on this thread are saying that all Muslims are radical.

So its not a question of the constitution -- its a question of, are all Muslims radical?

[cinFLA]

the reporter "on-scene" said he was looking at the "gentleman". Said he was muslim but no reference to "black".

[Wallaby]

I just posted the article linking Farrakhan to Tablighi Jamaat on this thread at #422. Here's a link:

Taking Jehad to the U.S.

[SAMWolf]

In this image, courtesy of CBS, soldiers from a 101st Airborne Division carry one of those injured in a grenade attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait early Sunday, March 23, 2003. The attack, carried out with grenades and small arms fire, wounded 10 soldiers, six seriously, U.S. military officials said. The injured were rushed to a field hospital but military officials had no word on their conditions. (AP Photo/CBS) MANDATORY CREDIT

[bootless]

Pam Colter of ABC radio news confirmed it was a soldier, with "an Arabic last name."

[William McKinley]

You are preaching to the choir, my friend. It is the same with immigration. The most vociferous anti-immigration types have poisoned the issue so much that common sense, simply right-thing-to-do measures aren't even considered.

And we all suffer for it.

[July 4th]

Look, this is not the only Moslem serving in our military.

I read a story the other day that there are a whole bunch of ex-Kuwaitis in our military who became US citizens after the Gulf War, and signed up for the army with the sole hope that they would get to go fight in Iraq someday.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

You'll never see it in a newspaper!

[bootless]

Haven't seen many white Muslims.

Richard Reid?

[Snake65]

Then we wouldn't be able to charge his family for the bullet.

I like the way you think. Is ten feet of rope more expensive?

[DoughtyOne]

There are ten million Moslems in this nation. Must we rehash this issue constantly? Some of them are terrorists and many of them are not.

[Freedom2specul8]

freep mail back..

[txradioguy]

I can recall VERY clearly the fact that several soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division married Somali women and brought them back to the U.S. when I was there in 1993. One of the first Islamic Chaplains in the Army was comissioned and assigned to Ft. Stewart. Now the Somali's who were in the area where we were at were loyal to Mohammed Aideed.

[Deport Billary]

The CBS article has just been edited to replace "black muslim" with "engineering student."

It's a religion of peace dontcha know. Can't have people thinking otherwise...

[jt8d]

Calipso Louie, and the rest of his creepy scum-suckin' gang of terrorist thugs need to be put on a hit list... NOW!

[mass55th]

I haven't heard of any deaths from this attack as of yet. My prayers are with them.

[eddie willers]

Ok, that does it. From now on I am going to require that the news media identify me as a "Freeper-American."

ROFLMBO!
I believe after 51 years I have finally found out who I am.

Hello to all my Freeper-American Brothers!
(and sisters..LOL)

[Radix]

I think it important to interrogate first. That would be my only disclaimer.

We are in accord!

Still, it is mind boggling to think about the significance of this incident!

Perhaps I may have been reading too much of Tom Clancy works.

I think that I might write a note to my Senator,one certain fat Teddy, concerning Immigration policies!

Perhaps he can make a difference with some new Immigration Legislation!

[Maeve]

Rubbish. You didn't read what I wrote. Go play your platitudinous games with someone else.

[gg188]

Those who embrace Wahabbi terrorism ISLAM are enemy combatants as far as I am concerned.